This is pretty HUGE news for online marketing!  APPLE is now going to run the ADS network on

all of their iPhone/iPad/iPod apps!  The gloves are off!  Google is going down!

FT.com / Media – Apple to battle with Google for mobile ads.

New Google UI In Wild Again, With Auto-Detected Location.

Hmmm… I’ll say it again, but I don’t think this is going to make Mr. Murdoch any money at all… newspapers are dying and I don’t think this or anything else will save them…

Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chairman, said Google and Microsoft's access to his newspapers could be limited to a “headline or a sentence or two” once he erects a pay wall around his titles' websites.

via Rupert Murdoch to limit Google and Microsoft’s access to his newspapers – Telegraph.

Ummm I know every time I get my FREE Yellow Pages books, we throw them away immediately… I really don’t know how much longer the yellow pages will survive… 5 years? 10 years?  Or less?  any opinions out there? We turn to Google for all of our searches, don’t you?

Is “Yellow Pages” Becoming An Obsolete Concept?.

Track Keywords with Topikality | Search Engine Journal.

People typically won’t link a webpage because they most likely WON’T READ a college dissertation online. Dumb it down folks! Dumb your content down!
Why Your Harvard-Educated Writer Doesn’t Attract Links – Search Marketing News Blog – Search Engine Watch (SEW).

This is a pretty neat background story to how the background image of Apple’s new iPad home page was chosen. The story behind the iPad’s home screen photo.

RT @andybeal Unvarnished.com Launches: A RipOff Report for Individuals? http://gri.ms/KRWd

My Way News – China thwarts Google’s detour around censorship.

Continuing on its path to take over the internet… Facebook will be launching its very own browser bar very soon folks! As I do NOT trust the SECURITY of Facebook, I will NOT trust using this thing!  My vote?!  PASS on THIS! MUCH LATER, perhaps, when Facebook has fixed all of their security issues, will I trust using Facebook to share EVERYTHING about my browsing experience.

Details on Facebook’s toolbar are still scant, but we hear that it will rest at the bottom of the browser window using AJAXy technology, the way Meebo’s Bar does (and the way the chat bar previously integrated into Facebook.com did before it). We can expect the Facebook bar to include sharing features and chat, just like the Meebo Bar. It’s unclear if Facebook will be launching its bar with advertising but we can almost certainly expect it to come eventually.

via Facebook To Launch Meebo Bar Clone On Its Quest To Take Over The Web.